The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
manitonof pilot.
THURSDAY, SEPT. Is, 1857.
MISSING LINKS.

has S,O34 saloons, of which only Az
are kept by native Americans.
Tl~ river front at Sioux City is
being cut off in huge chunks by the
treacherous whirlpools of the Missouri.
A man in Stafford, Kas., has made
an effort to imprOv on the declaration
Of independence by writinga new one.
0. C. Cabot, brother of Sebastian
Cabot, had only to spell his name
backwards and the result was-tobac-
60.
In New York. city many mothers
give their babes an airing by riding an
hour or two in the elevated railway
cars.
Clara Erskin Waters is the name of q
Boston woman who is building Hin.
doc temple in her back yard, to wor-
ship in.
Miss Batcheler, of Saratoga, daugh-
ter of General Batcheler, is only seven
teen years old and speaks eight Ian
guages tluently.
In the east of London there is a
church where parties wishing to marry
may have the ceremony performed for
sevenpence hapenny.
The women of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church of this country have raised
during the past sixteen years about
-, $50, 900 for missions.
Nine. Popp, for fifty years editor OF
the Bruges journal, has written no less
than 1900 articles, each containing
from 5000 to 1000 words.
Gilbert and Sullivan are said to be
preparing an American comic opera
based on the assumption that Ameri-
cans don't rule their own country.
A law designed to prevent girls
under the age of 10 years from beg
ging or peddling has been admitted to
the statute books of Massachusetts.
A writer in The Nineteenth Century
proposes the establishment of a we'll
endowed kitchen college for the sys-
tematic training of domestic servants.
At GAINESVILLE, Ga, the Soque wool
en- mill has forbidden any of its female
employees to wear bustles while at work
in the factory, for the reason that
there is danger of their dresses being
caught in the looms.
There is law in Washington terri
tory compelling the teachers of public
schools to teach physiology and by
giene, and if they do not teach the
same they cannot draw school money;
also, if the pupils will not study those
studies they can be expelled from the
school.
Two years ago Lillian E. Linekin, of
San Francisco, employed a detective
to 90 east aud look up the antecedents
Of Dr.. Toland, to whom the young lady
was engaged. The engagement was
soon after declared off," and now the
detective is suing Miss Linekin for
$1,000 for his services.
Irving Born of Allegan, Mich, 10
years old, helped his mother wash in
the morning and then went to Clapp's
warehouse, nailed handles on 600 peach
baskets, driving eight nails in each
basket, or 4, 800 in all, and then tied
up the baskets in half-dozen lots. He
then quit and called it half day.
The San Francisco Alta boasts that
the voting citizens OF that city come
from sixty different political divisions
Of the world, Egypt being about the
only country not represented. The
American" party certainly stands a
poor chance in a city where there are
23,34S citizens of foreign nationality
and %, $50 born in the United States,
The San Diego SIN SAYS that a prom
inent resident of National City, whose
reputation for probity is thoroughly
established, points to a large grape
vine and deposes as follows: Last
year | helped to pick and weigh LAB
pounds of fruit from the vine. | saw
these grapes pressed into 123 gallons
of wine by man SO years of age, and
the most of the product was retailed to
medical men here and at San Diego at
g per gallon"
a few mornings ago atMilledgeville,
Ga, Mr.. Edward Carrington's atteu-
ton was attracted to noise in the
yard among the poultry. He soon dis
covered with the geese tall white
bird. Being alarmed the bird flew in
a treenear the fence, from which it was
shot in the neck and killed. 1t proved
to be crane of the order of grallia.
1t measured a feet from tip to tip of
wings and 3 feet inches from the tip
of bill to end of tail
The complete skeleton of a man and
the blade of an officers sword were
found a few days ago on portion of
the battlefield of Antietam by a party
of Charleston CIV. Na.) fishermen.
The body was in the midst of thicket
of young trees, which probably ac-
counts for its being overlooked for so
long a time. There being no clew as
to the identity of the remains the
bones were inferred by the fishermen
near where they We're found.
A Georgia mule fell into an old well
thirty feet deep. He took his position
in sitting posture and was the unwill
ing monarch of all he surveyed" until
his excited owner summoned a posse
to his aid, A rope was tied around
the body of the mule and he was drawn
to the top of the wei. The rope broke
and the mule again went to the other
end OF the well. a second attempt
was successful. He leaped to his feet
and commenced feeding on grass as
though nothing had happened.
At Monticello. Fla, day or two
ago DR.. G. B. Glover extracted from
the back of a negro man named Kiah
Hall piece of knife blade two inches
long which had been placed there four
years ago by Il colored man named
Jim Miller. kiah had not the remot-
est idea that he was carrying cold
steel in his body, and went to the
doctor with the idea that boil was de-
He was mad when he found
that he had been taking care of Jim
Millers knife-blade for four years.
She-O, how do you do, dear Mr..
Lyon. Have you forgiven me for cut
ting you at Mrs. Leo Hunters last
night? | was actually stupid enough
to take you for that horrid bore, Mr..
Tetterby Thompson, whom you're said
TO be so like. It's Il horrid libel
you're not like him a bit He-A-a-I
wasn't at Mrs. Leo Hunters last night
my name is Tetterby Thomp-
son.-Lond0a Pslnch
'I2ung man, said q stern parent,